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I am sorry you did not see the actual analogy in the situation of how I perceived Lotus Notes and how the world perceives Perl.

If I am already writing this let me emphasize. If we don’t talk more about Perl and Perl based solutions outside of the echochamber of the Perl community then people will keep thinking that Perl is dead.

That was my point, and that was the reason I wanted this to actuall show up on Ironman.

I saw your analogy comment at the bottom of the post. Then I thought for a moment about whether you really were comparing Lotus Notes which is sold to senior management in Fortune 500 companies by dedicated IBM salesmen to Perl before dismissing it.

However, as you really believe there is an analogy even I still don’t really see it, I apologise for saying this sort of post shouldn’t be on Ironman. If there is any sort of link to Perl, I guess it should.

As to your other point, I think echo chamber blogging is the motivating factor for people within the community (such as yourself) doing the real work (such as annual perl 5 major releases, moose, plack and padre) that will make people outside the community discover perl. The blogging on its own will have no effect.

I have to agree with Gabor here. I saw the analogy straight away, and found it quite amusing. It was a post about Perl, in the wider context. It didn’t talk about some Perl module, or an artefact of Perl syntax, or some bug he found in some Perl code today. But it did talk about the wider perception of Perl by people outside of this inner circle of fanatics. They’re an important group we shouldn’t forget.